February 26, 2014 4:00 PM EST
Who will win the 86th Academy Awards? As the Oscars approach, people are wondering who will take home Hollywood’s most recognizable phallic symbol. One place to find the answer is TIME’s film critic extraordinaireRichard Corliss. Or you could ask a bunch of porn stars.
Vivid’s adult film actresses gave Uproxx their predictions about who will grab Oscars this Sunday, so if you’re struggling to fill out a winners’ chart or whatever people use to bet on these things, they’re worth taking a gander at.
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“It just seems completely ridiculous. Three years ago, I wouldn’t be able to influence my dog to walk.”
– ROBERT PATTINSON, star of upcoming The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, on his being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World while on Oprah earlier this week. (via Fancast)
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Reem Sahwil began to cry during a televised discussion forum in July when Merkel told her that Germany could not admit everyone who wanted to live there. Merkel stroked Sahwil on the back, drawing mockery online from critics who accused her of looking clumsy and lacking empathy. A video clip of the exchange went viral and started the hashtag #merkelstreichelt (merkelstrokes). Sahwil has now been granted a residency permit lasting until Oct.
The history of popular music is a pendulum constantly swinging from authenticity to artifice and back. This dialectic shapes and is in turn shaped by youth culture; baby boomers mirrored the bouncy, smiley, clean-cut early Beatles’ rapid transformation into the psychedelic, spiritual, hairy late Beatles. A generation later, the hair metal and synthpop of the ’80s gave way to the grunge and gangsta rap of the ’90s. And recently, as a long era of perfectionist pop wanes, an apocalyptic Gen Z take on authenticity has emerged.
September 18, 2018 4:20 PM EDT
A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets “do not have a sexual orientation.”
The most recent back-and-forth over Bert and Ernie’s sexual orientation came after former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman, who worked for the show from 1981 until 1990, discussing his career writing scripts for The Muppets in an interview with Queerty.